Career advice for graduates, from someone who’s been there Careers One of The Mandarin’s distinguished brains trust panel, Helen SilverAO, this week delivered the graduate address at Monash University, after being awarded an honorary doctorate.
Fixing federalism: forget the turf wars and focus on outcomes November 30, 2017 By The Mandarin Features Across the world, nations are rediscovering the benefits of federal systems and devolving power to state or regional governments. Yet in Australia for the past
If we scrapped the states, increasing Canberra’s clout would be a backward step January 20, 2017 By John Quiggin Features If you were starting Australia all over again, you would have a national government and 20 regional governments. That was one of the things I
Minority government: public sector policies that can woo independent MPs July 5, 2016 By Stephen Easton News As the Australian Electoral Commission resumes counting postal and out-of-jurisdiction ballots, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull could either reach a tiny majority or try to form a minority government —
Brave new tax world: devolution back on the COAG agenda March 31, 2016 By Stephen Easton Economy & Industry Federation reform and its central issue — taxation — will dominate tomorrow’s Council of Australian Governments meeting, which will discuss a proposal to let states
Listen: John Bannon explains federation reform to public servants December 14, 2015 By The Mandarin News Prominent and influential Australians are paying tribute to South Australia’s longest serving premier John Bannon, who passed away yesterday. Among them was Prime Minister Malcolm
